As a new teacher I was full of, mainly unfounded, confidence. However, the one aspect of the job that did give me “the fear” was my first parents’ evenings.
Even in my youthful ignorance, I had enough insight to realise that meetings with parents had the potential to go badly – very badly.
Much as my training had prepared me well for my role as a classroom teacher, there had been almost no input on how to manage conversations with parents.
Fast-forward almost 30 years and there seems to be more than a little irony in the fact that I now spend a great deal of my time managing some exceptionally difficult dialogues with parents.
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